The quilting points of musical modernsim
Subtitle: revolution, reaction, and William Walton
By: J.P.E. Harper-Scott
Series: Music in context
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780521765213
Subjects: Modernism (Music); Music; Philosophy and aesthetics
Description: Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence against totalitarianism, yet some American critics consider it elitist, undemocratic, and even unnatural. Drawing extensively on the philosophy of Heidegger and Badiou, Quilting Points proposes a new dialectical theory of faithful, reactive, and obscure subjective responses to musical modernism, which embraces all the music of Western modernity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.